Weather-strip



No. 6||,247. Patented sept. 27, |898. G. w. GOLDEN.

WEATHER STRIP.

(Application led Mar. 7, 1898.)

(No Model.)

NITED STATES` GEORGE w. GOLDEN, OE DETROIT, MIoI-IIGAN.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,247, dated September 27, 1898.

Application filed March 7, 1898.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. GOLDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ve'ather-Stripspf which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention consists in the construction of a weather-strip made of sheet metal bent into the shape of an angle-iron, combined with grooves formed in the parting-strip and the inner faces of the window-sash, into which these two portions of the strip respectively extend.

The invention further consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts, all as more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure lis a sectional perspective view of a window-frame, showing the meeting-rails of the sash. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the sash on the plane of the front face of the parting-strip, showing my weather-strip in elevation. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the parting-strip, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the meeting ends of the two sections of my strip.

In the present state of the art the most common manner of applying weather-strips is to apply a strip of wood along the edge of the window and the wood being provided with a rubber cushion which contacts the frame and is supposed to make a tight joint. The objections to this construction are too well known to require specifying. It has also been proposed to provide the frame with metallic strips working in grooves in the outer faces of the sash. This requires that the sash shall be taken out of the frame to apply the strip.

My invention gives me a tight joint at all points in the sash and acts as a guide for the same, so as to prevent rattling, and can be applied to a sash already inA use and in the frame without moving the sash.

To the end, therefore, of overcoming the objections to existing constructions I make my strip as follows: I take a piece of sheet metal and bend it into the shape of an angle-iron, the wings A and B of the angle-iron being Serial No. 672.835. (No model.)

preferably formed ofthe doubled or U-shaped configuration, as plainly shown in Fig. 4. These angle-iron strips thus formed are preferably made in two sections, each of a length substantially equal to the length of the sash.

C represents the upper sash, and D the lower sash; E, the window-frame, and F the parting-strip.

To apply my strip to a window already built, I form on the parting-strip, preferably centrally thereof, a longitudinal groove G, and in the contiguous faces of the window-sash I form grooves II and I, respectively. The parts being thus constructed and the sash and the parting-strip grooved, to apply my invention I take one of the sections of the weather-strip and apply it by engaging the wing B into the groove G of the parting-strip, and the wing A I engage into the groove H of the upper sash. The wing A is of a greater width than half the width of the parting-strip, and therefore projects beyond the parting-strip and int-o the groove H. I secure the'weather-strip in position by driving brads or nails into the wing B between the two parts thereof or into the trough formed therein, as plainly shown in'Fig. 3, thereby entirely hiding the nails and' preventing any possibility of the nail projecting so that it may interfere with the raising or lowering of the sash. The lower section may then be put in position in the same manner. At the meeting ends of the two sections I overlap them, and this I preferably do by cutting slits J in the bottom of the wing B, so that they may interlock more readily and without the danger of spreading the lips of the wings B. This overlapping is plainly shown in Fig. 2.

By making the wings in the shape of a loop I may get a spring effect which will form a tight joint against the side of the groove into ywhich said wing engages. By making this of thin' flexible sheet metal there is no tendency whatever of the sash to bind in moving up or down for any little inequalities in its movement will bend-the material sufficiently and with sufficient ease so that it will in no way impede .the movement of the. sash. I have found that these grooves can be made by a suitable plane while the sash is in the frame without in any way marring the sash or frame and in a very few minutes.

Itis well understood, of course, that on the window-seat a similar strip may be nailed, with the stein A projecting upward to enter a groove in the edge of the sash, and that the upper sash may be provided with similar` strips, if desired. This is so obvious that I do not deem it necessary to illustrate the saine.

Vhat I claim as rny invention isl. Aweather-strip oomprisin g an angle-bar formed of sheet metal each Wing thereof being doubled, a weather-strip formed of sheet metal bent cent-rally into an angle-bar and having the end portions of each wing doubled upon itself to form a loop, one wing being adapted to engage in a groove in the windowsash and the other to engage in a groove in the parting-strip, the wing in the partingstrip being so formed as to make a nailingslot between the parts thereof.

2. A weather-strip formed of two anglebars, joining at the meeting-rails of the sash and each angle-bar having a wing which engages a slotin the meetingrail and a laterallyextending wing, the lateral wings upon the two sections extending in opposite directions.

In combination with a longitudinallygrooved parting-strip and an upper and lower sash having grooves in line with the outer face of the parting-strip, of a weather-strip formed of sheet metal bent to form an anglebar, each wing of the angle-bar being looped, two sections being slotted and overlapping at the Ineetingrail of the sash, arranged substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

O'rro F. BARTHEL, LIONEL BATTERSBY. 

